Name

Chapter 16 — The Endurance

Description

What survived. The things London never knew about — the language, the customs, the Tynwald ceremony continuing, the accommodation between old belief and new church holding fast. The institutional erosion documented alongside the quiet persistence of everything that made the island itself.

Period

1765–1866

Key Figures

Key figures: Spencer Walpole, J.C. Curwen, Lord Ellenborough

Part

Part III: Rank Is but a Guinea Stamp

Type

Chapter